Pet house

The screen shown when looking in a Pet house.

A Pet house can be built in the Menagerie of a player-owned house and is used to store fully grown pets and clockwork cats (thereby saving bank space). Baby pets cannot live in the house. Pets stored in the pet house will roam around the house while the player is in it. As of a hidden update players can now talk to their pets as they roam around the house.

There are several types of pet houses that can be built depending on the player's construction level and each higher level pet house is an upgrade from an existing lower level pet house. For example, building a mahogany pet house requires a teak pet house to exist. It is not needed to remove the pets already stored in the pet house, when you want to upgrade it.

To place a pet into your pet house, first pick it up so that it is in your pack. Then use the pet on the pet house. Alternatively, left-click on the house or right-click on it and choose the Store option. A display will appear showing all the pets you have stored in the pet house. Then click on the pet in your pack to store it.

To take a pet out of your pet house, click on the house. You may then click on a pet and choose the Take option to place it into your pack. However, you can only have one of a particular type of pet in your pack at a time. For example, only one of a Zamorak hawk, Saradomin owl or Guthix raptor can be in your pack.

	Pet house	Level	Materials	Upgrade Cost	Cumulative Cost	Experience	Max pets
	Oak pet house	37	4 oak planks	4,668	4,668	260	5
	Teak pet house	52	4 teak planks	1,680	6,348	380	10
	Mahogany pet house	67	4 mahogany planks	7,868	14,216	580	15
	Consecrated pet house	92	4 mahogany planks, 1 magic stone	867,674	881,890	1580	30
	Desecrated pet house	92	4 mahogany planks, 1 magic stone	867,674	881,890	1580	30
	Natural pet house	92	4 mahogany planks, 1 magic stone	867,674	881,890	1580	30

Pets that can be stored

	Pet Name	Source	Requirements
	Broav	Quest reward	23 Summoning, While Guthix Sleeps
	Rune Guardian	Quest reward	4 Summoning, Rune Mechanics
	Pig	Obtained from Eli underneath Falador farm	14 Summoning, Bringing Home the Bacon
	Tooth Creature (Healthy)	Bought for several teeth after quest	A Fairy Tale III - Battle at Ork's Rift
	Tooth Creature (Decayed)
	Fishbowl	Caught in Harry's Fishing Shop using a tiny net, with a fishbowl (containing water and seaweed) in the inventory	Nothing
	Giant Crab	Traded for a crunchy claw token	40 Summoning, 32 Slayer, Pirate Pete subquest RFD
	Monkey	Caught in Karamja	95 Summoning, 27 Hunter
	Warming flames	Char's training cave after The Firemaker's Curse	91 Firemaking
	Twisted firestarter
	Searing flame
	Glowing ember
	Baby Troll	Obtained from Corporal Keymans	Nothing
	Clockwork Cat	Player-owned house Workshop	85 Crafting
	Pet rock	Obtained from Askeladden	The Fremennik Trials
	Freezy	Bought with 100 Co-op Slayer points	Nothing
	Freezy's jungle skin	Bought with 125 Co-op Slayer points with a Freezy pet in the inventory
	Freezy's desert skin
	Freezy's wilderness skin
	Adult, Overgrown, Wily and Lazy cats	Obtained from Gertrude	Gertrude's Cat
	Adult, Overgrown, Wily and Lazy hellcats	Created from a cat by capturing multiple Hellrats	Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave
	Adult, Overgrown, Wily and Lazy Purple Cats	Created from a cat by talking to Wendy	Purple Cat
	Eek	2009 Halloween event / 2022 Halloween event	Nothing
	Squirrel	Caught in various locations around Gielinor	60 Summoning, 29 Hunter
	Platypus	Caught in the beach south of Oo'glog	10 Summoning, 48 Hunter, As a First Resort
	Hermit crab	Caught while fishing crystal urchins in Prifddinas Waterfall	93 Fishing, 90 Ranged, 90 Agility, 90 Strength, 75 Summoning, Plague's end
	Bulldog	Purchased from pet shop	4 Summoning
	Dalmatian
	Greyhound
	Labrador
	Sheepdog
	Terrier
	Vulture	Hatched from a Vulture egg	85 Summoning
	San'tar spawnling	2013 Christmas event / 2023 Christmas event	2000 naughty or nice points / 2000 Christmas spirit

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• patch 14 October 2019 (Update):
  • Fixed a bug where pets within the POH Pet House were not displayed correctly.

• patch 13 November 2017 (Update):
  • The Natural pet house now correctly displays that it it can store 30 pets instead of 25 when examined.

• ninja 6 November 2017 (Update):
  • The highest tier of Menagerie pet houses now have 30 slots, up from 25.

• patch 20 July 2015 (Update):
  • Winston's name has been corrected in the Pet House interface in a player's menagerie.

• patch 27 May 2014 (Update):
  • To help you find space for your new friends, we've also increased the maximum capacity of the player-owned house menagerie at all tiers - up to 25, at the highest tier.

• patch 17 March 2014 (Update):
  • The Pet House in Player Owned Houses has been updated to the new interface theme.

• patch 7 February 2012 (Update):
  • Baby Troll names now appear correctly in a POH pet house.

• patch 7 September 2010 (Update):
  • POH pet house description said it could hold 10 pets when it can actually hold 15.

• patch 23 March 2010 (Update):
  • The number of pets you can store in your player-owned house menagerie has been increased from 10 to 15, but only if you've built a mahogany pet feeder and you have a consecrated, desecrated or natural pet house.

• update 18 August 2009 (Update):
  • Added to game.